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unusual facts about House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies


Luigi Gabrielli

Born in Naples to a family originally from Gubbio, Luigi was the son of Antonio Gabrielli, a nobleman of progressive ideas who in 1799 had supported the Parthenopean Republic against the Bourbon kings.


Algueña

In the administrative reform carried out by the Bourbons, it remained equally included in Orihuela’s district of corregidor until 1833, the year in which the current provincial system was established.

Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto

The city soon established covered a certain role with significant contributions to the definitive expulsion of the House of Bourbon from the province and the whole of Sicily and increasingly effective input in all the events included in the process of unification of constituting Kingdom of Italy.

Battle of Brignais

The Battle of Brignais was fought on 6 April 1362, between forces of the Kingdom of France under count Jacques de Bourbon,from whom the later royal Bourbons descend, and the Free Companies, led by Petit Meschin and Seguin de Badefol.

Chantal de Chevron-Villette

Chantal married Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, only son of Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro and his wife Countess Maria Carolina Zamoyska, on 23 July 1949 in Giez.

De la Rochejacquelein

De La Rochejacquelein or De La Rochejaquelein is the name of an ancient French family of the Vendée, celebrated for its devotion to the House of Bourbon during and after the French Revolution.

Duchy of Parma

The Habsburgs only ruled until the conclusion of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, when it was ceded back to the Bourbons in the person of Don Philip, Don Charles's younger brother, which received also the little Duchy of Guastalla.

Duke of Bourbon

Although the senior line came to an end in 1527, the cadet branch of La Marche-Vendome would later succeed to the French throne as the Royal House of Bourbon, which would later spread out to other kingdoms and duchies in Europe.

Dynastic union

Following Salic law, Henry III, King of Navarre, a member of the House of Bourbon, succeeded to the French throne in 1589 upon the extinction of the male line of the House of Valois.

Faubourg Saint-Germain

During the Restoration of the Bourbon dynasty, the Faubourg recovered its past glory as the most exclusive high nobility district of Paris.

François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest

In 1795 he joined King Louis XVI's middle brother, the comte de Provence, at Verona as an émigré minister of the House of Bourbon.

Guignen

It was passed through to the Princes of Condé, members of the House of Bourbon by a marriage between Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Condé to Charlotte de Rohan who was created Viscountess in 1745.

Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol

Jacques I of Leuze-Châtillon (d. 1302, Battle of the Golden Spurs), first of the lords of Leuze, married Catherine de Condé and had issue; his descendants brought Condé, Carency, etc. into the House of Bourbon.

Haemophilia in European royalty

Britain's Queen Victoria, through two of her five daughters (Princess Alice and Princess Beatrice), passed the mutation to various royal houses across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany and Russia.

Henry Swinburne

They then sailed to Naples, and travelled in the Two Sicilies, where they stayed for 1777 and 1778, and for the early months of 1779.

House of Bourbon-Dampierre

Through the marriage of the last female of that line, Agnès of Bourbon-Dampierre († 1287), with John of Burgundy, her House merged with the House of Burgundy, and to their daughter Beatrix of Burgundy (1257-1310), Lady of Bourbon.

House of Bourbon-Montpensier

# Louis Philippe II d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier

# Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier (Philippe Égalité) (1747-1793) - son of Louis Philippe I

Infanta Amelia Philippina of Spain

She was born at the royal Palace of Madrid on 12 October 1834 as the eleventh child and sixth daughter of Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain, younger brother of King Fernando VII of Spain, and his wife, Princess Luisa Carlota of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Infanta Blanca of Spain

Blanca married Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, second child and eldest son of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and his wife Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, on 24 October 1889 at Schloss Frohsdorf in Lanzenkirchen, Lower Austria, Austria.

Ippolito Nievo

In 1860 he fought with Giuseppe Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand, who, after having defeated the Bourbon army in Sicily and Southern Italy, gave those regions to the King of Sardinia Victor Emmanuel II.

Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon

He is the son of Prince Charles Napoléon and his first wife Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, daughter of the late Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon, Duke of Castro, a claimant to Headship of the former Royal House of the Two Sicilies.

Joseph, Duke of Parma

Joseph, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (Italian: Giuseppe Maria Pietro Paolo Francesco Roberto Tomaso-d'Aquino Andrea-Avellino Biagio Mauro Carlo Stanislao Luigi Filippo-Neri Leone Bernardo Antonio Ferdinando di Borbone-Parma e Piacenza; 30 June 1875 Biarritz – 7 January 1950 Pianore, Lucca, Italy) was the head of the House of Bourbon-Parma and the pretender to the defunct throne of Parma from 1939 to 1950.

Krzysztof Korwin Gosiewski

In 30 March, together with Jan Kazimierz he left the Bourbons’ capital.

L'Alcúdia

The town took active participation in all the conflicts that shook Spain along the history: it was sacked during the "Revolta de les Germanies" in the beginning of the 16th century; in the 18th century, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Bourbon troops plundered it again, and finally, during the Peninsular War it lodged a camp of French troops that looted everything from the villagers, leaving them in the red.

Louis François, Duke of Anjou

Saint Denis remained the traditional burial place of the House of Bourbon till the French Revolution.

Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant

Doulcet was subsequently elected to the French Directory's Council of Five Hundred, but was suspected of Royalist sympathies, and had to spend some time in retirement between anti-monarchist coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) and the establishment of the Consulate (the 18 Brumaire coup of 9 November 1799).

Louis Jean Marie de La Trémoille

His accidental death before his 25th year extinguished the last but one (i.e., the House of Rohan) of France's most renowned prince étranger families, whose struggles and alliances with the Valois and Bourbon kings of France constitute no small part of the history of the ancien régime.

Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France

As the heir apparent to the French throne, he was called the twenty-sixth Dauphin of France—the hereditary "crown prince" title of the Capetian and Bourbon Monarchies as well as of medieval and early-modern France.

Louis Napoléon Lannes

Lannes at first appeared, by his votes, to be linked to the Legitimist faction (which supported the claims to the Throne of the elder line of the House of Bourbon), but he was soon to join fully in support of the July Monarchy and usually then voted with the Doctrinaires.

Louis-Jérôme Gohier

Gohier was Minister of Justice from March 1793 to April 1794, overseeing the arrest of Girondists, and, a member of the Council of Five Hundred, he succeeded Jean Baptiste Treilhard in the French Directory (June 1799), where he represented the Republican view in front of growing Royalist opposition.

Luigi Ferrarese

In 1848, he was elected as a deputy for the district of Potenza at the Neapolitan Parliament but, because of his liberal ideas, was constantly overseen by the Bourbon police.

Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois

Jacques I of Leuze-Châtillon (died 1302, Battle of the Golden Spurs), first of the lords of Leuze, married Catherine de Condé and had issue; his descendants brought Condé, Carency, etc. into the House of Bourbon.

Monroe Doctrine

In particular, the Holy Alliance authorized military incursions to re-establish Bourbon rule over Spain and its colonies, which were establishing their independence.

Peter II, Duke of Bourbon

Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (1 December 1438 – 10 October 1503, Moulins), was the son of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, and Agnes of Burgundy, and a member of the House of Bourbon.

Pierre Claude François Daunou

His was instrumental in crushing the Royalist insurgency known as the 13 Vendémiaire, and the important place he occupied at the beginning of the period is indicated by the fact that he was elected by twenty-seven départements as member of the Council of Five Hundred, and became its first president.

Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Carlos served in the Spanish Army in the Spanish–American War and received the Military Order of Maria Cristina.

Prince Johann Georg of Saxony

He married for a second time to Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, fourth child and eldest daughter of Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Caserta and his wife Princess Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, on 30 October 1906 in Cannes, France.

Prince Luiz Gastão of Orléans-Braganza

Princess Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

:::∞ Carrie Anne Thornley (born 2 February 1945 in Cessnock) on 30 August 1986 in Brisbane

Princess Lucia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

::*Maria Luce Lydia Frioli (born 15 August 1978 in São Paulo)

::*Vittorio Eugenio Frioli (born 27 February 1972 in São Paulo)

::*Maria Cristina Frioli (born and died in 1973 in São Paulo)

Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Princess Maria Annunciata Isabella Filomena Sabasia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, full Italian name: Maria Annunziata Isabella Filomena Sabasia, Principessa di Borbone delle Due Sicilie (24 March 1843 – 4 May 1871) was the mother of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the archduke whose assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 precipitated the start of World War I.

Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1878–1973) (also known as "Maria Pia"), daughter of Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta and Princess Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Souvigny

Today the main town of a canton of the Allier department, Souvigny has long been one of the major towns in the Bourbonnais (it used to be the capital of that region), and the royal House of Bourbon was based there.

Teatro di San Carlo

The Real Teatro di San Carlo (Royal Theatre of Saint Charles), its original name under the Bourbon monarchy but known today as simply the Teatro di San Carlo, is an opera house in Naples, Italy.

Władysław Czartoryski

Son of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski and Princess Anna Zofia Sapieha, he married Maria Amparo, Countess of Vista Alegre, daughter of Queen Maria Christina of Spain by morganatic relation to the Augustín Fernández Muñoz, Duke of Riansares, on March 1, 1855 in Malmaison near Paris.

Zenón de Somodevilla, 1st Marqués de la Ensenada

His ability was recognized by Don José Patiño, the chief minister of King Philip V, who promoted him to supervise work at the naval arsenal at Ferrol, the main base of the Spanish Navy's Maritime Department of the North since the time of the early Bourbons.


see also

Albert Vanhoye

In November 2010 Cardinal Vanhoye was appointed by Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro as Ecclesiastical Counsellor to the Royal House of Bourbon Two Sicilies having previously served as Grand Prior of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George.